Pink Hill, NC 28572 Frost Dates
28572, near Pink Hill, NC: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/05, about 220 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 214 days after the last spring frost.
Pink Hill sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Pink Hill's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/05 isn't a guarantee
04/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pink Hill against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 214 frost-free days, Pink Hill places 14,347 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 725 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 28572: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Pink Hill's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Pink Hill's dates instead of trusting one.